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{{Short description|Fictional character in The Illuminatus! Trilogy}}

:''The German [[hacker]] [[Hagbard (Karl Koch)|Karl Koch]] also used the [[nickname]] Hagbard.''

{{For|the German hacker who used the nickname "Hagbard"|Karl Koch (hacker)}}

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{{Infobox character

| name = Hagbard Celine

| series = [[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]

| creator = [[Robert Shea]]<br>[[Robert Anton Wilson]]

| first = ''[[The Eye in the Pyramid]]'' (1975)

| full_name = Howard Crane

| alias = Hagbard Celine

| species = [[Human]]

| gender = [[Male]]

}}

'''Hagbard Celine''' is a central [[protagonist]] in ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' series of books by [[Robert Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]] named after the legendary Viking hero [[Hagbard]], who died for love. In the ''[[Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy]]'' written after ''Illuminatus!'', it is stated that "Hagbard Celine" is a pseudonym and that his legal name is '''Howard Crane'''. However, the trilogy passes through many different universes.

==Character==

Captain '''Hagbard Celine''' is a fictional character from the ''[[Illuminatus trilogy]]'' of books by [[Robert Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]], named after the legendary Viking hero [[Hagbard]] who died for love.

Hagbard has parallels to [[Jules Verne]]'s character, [[Captain Nemo]]. Both are genius captains aboard a fantastic submarine. Both are rogues who have mostly broken off from society, yet help the oppressed. Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is Captain Nemo,<ref>[http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/wnu6.htm French Wold Newton Universe: Who Was Nobody?]</ref> though Verne's ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]'' is set in the second half of the nineteenth century. He is also comparable to a degree to [[Ragnar Danneskjold]], a libertarian pirate in [[Ayn Rand]]'s novel ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', which is spoofed in the chronicles as "''[[Telemachus]] Sneezed''". Like Danneskjold, Hagbard participates in the black market, exploiting and resisting governments, and both characters have Norwegian roots.

Hagbard is a notorious prankster and liar (telling one character not to trust anyone with the initials H.C.). This character trait is displayed throughout ''Illuminatus!''. Celine tends to give misinformation about himself and his intentions and that he faked the death of an actress, implied to be [[Marilyn Monroe]],<ref>{{cite web

A [[Discordian]], [[anarchist]] and modern-day [[Leonardo da Vinci]], he fights the [[Illuminati]] from a golden submarine, the ''[[Leif Ericson]]'', either designed and built by himself or stolen from the [[United States Navy]], or a gift from the [[Mafia]]. Despite its size (the equivalent of five city blocks long, with a three story high [[conning tower]]), it has so far remained undetected.

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| access-date=2023-01-19}}</ref> in order to train her into becoming an embodiment of the goddess [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]]. Celine subsequently fell in love with the woman and announces his intention to marry her during the trilogy.

A [[Discordianism|Discordian]], [[anarchist]] and modern-day [[Leonardo da Vinci]], he fights the [[Illuminati]] from a golden submarine, the ''Leif Ericson'' (named after [[Leif Ericson|the Viking explorer]]'',). eitherThe submarine was supposedly designed and built by himself or, stolen from the [[United States Navy]], or a gift from the [[Sicilian Mafia|the Mafia]]. Despite its size (thesize—the equivalent of five city blocks long, with a three -story -high [[conning tower]]), it—it has so far remained undetected.

He has a [[Norway|Norwegian]] mother and an [[Italy|Italian]] father, and physically resembles [[Anthony Quinn]]. He speaks [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Swahili]]. He graduated [[Harvard]] with the somewhat strange [[double major]] of [[contract law]] and [[naval engineering]].

He has a Norwegian mother and a Sicilian father, physically resembling [[Anthony Quinn]]. In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single-volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe. Wilson also implies in ''[[The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles]]'' that Hagbard is related to one of the central characters, Sigismundo Celine.

A [[Naturalization|naturalized]] [[United States]] citizen, he later also became a citizen of [[Equatorial Guinea]] of which [[Bioko|Fernando Poo]] is a part.

He has a [[Norway|Norwegian]] mother and an [[Italy|Italian]] father, and physically resembles [[Anthony Quinn]]. He speaks [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Swahili]]. He graduated [[Harvard|from Harvard]] with thea somewhat strange [[double major]] ofin [[contract law]] and [[naval engineering]].

He uses his computer (again designed by himself, and called [[FUCKUP]] (First Universal Cybernetic Kynetic Ultramicro-Programmer) to, among other things, calculate the chances of [[World War III]] starting, which it does by throwing virtual [[I Ching]] sticks.

A former [[Naturalization|naturalized]] United States citizen, Hagbard supposedly [[Relinquishment of United States nationality|relinquished his citizenship]] after representing a [[Mohawk nation|Mohawk]] reservation in court against the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]]. Hagbard generally told people he was an engineer building a dam during his time with the Mohawk because he was ashamed of being a lawyer.

His manifesto is called "Never Whistle While You're Pissing" and in it you can find his [http://www.blackcrayon.com/library/dictionary/celine/ Definitions and Distinctions].

He later became a citizen of [[Equatorial Guinea]], of which [[Bioko|Fernando Poo]] is a part, having papers referring to this by the time of the [[Walpurgis Night|Walpurgisnacht]] rock concert. The appendix to the trilogy mentions that Hagbard builds a [[starship]] and leaves to explore [[Alpha Centauri]] in the year 1999.

[[Category:Fictional anarchists|Celine, Hagbard]]

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His manifesto is called ''Never Whistle While You're Pissing'', containing his ''Definitions and Distinctions'', an anarchist interpretation of capitalist concepts.<ref>{{cite web

| url=https://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/01/definitions-and-distinctions.html

| title=Definitions and Distinctions

| first=Kevin

| last=Carson

| authorlink=Kevin Carson

| date=2005-01-19

| access-date=2021-12-02}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Celine's Laws]]

==References==

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